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As soon as it was known in Geneva that the Japs had bombed Pearl Harbor, the International Red Cross got in touch with a Swiss doctor who had been prac- ticing for twenty years in T okio. This gentleman, Dr. F'ritz Paravicini, has more or less specialized in the ailments of ambassadors and consuls, and he undoubtedly knows his way around. Over here, protecting the interests of the Japanese prisoners of war, we have Marc Peter, who had retired just be- fore Pear] Harbor after serving twen- ty years as the Swiss Minister to this coun try. Dr. Paravicini and Mr. Peter have the same duties: to travel around and make inspections of prisoners' camps, seeing whether or not the food, cloth- ing", shelter, medical attention, and al- lotments of money are up to the stand- ards set by the Geneva Convention of 1929, and formally reporting the mat- ter if they are not. (Japan was repre- sented at Geneva and her representative signed the treaty, but the government didn't ratify it. Then Japan announced . that she would abide by it anyway.) The International Red Cross repre- sentatives also act as a clearing house for mail and supplies sent to prisoners and try to keep an up-to-date check list of prisoners and interned civilians. They perform these services for prisoners of any nationality; for example, the Red Cross representatives sent to Germany to watch out for French and English prisoners have taken on American pris- oners, too. The delegates are paid out of the International Red Cross's funds, which are collected from the various na- tional Red Cross organizations. The four national organizations with the largest membership and bank balances are those of the United States, Russia, Germany, and Japan. The Red Cross. is highly privileged, of course, in communicating from one belligerent country to another, but getting messages through is frequently complicated. This is especially true of Japan now. The cables between this country and Japan are cut, probably as a result of American action when the J aps took Guam. The problem of AuaUST 1+, 194-.3 C0111municating with American prison- ers in Europe isn't so had, since the Red Cross has access to the necessarv cable facilities. Supplies, too, can readi- ly be sent, for there are a number of Swiss and other neutral ships operating between this continent and Marseilles, and the Red Cross operates one ship of Its own. WhIle we're on the sûbject of com- munications, experts here think that the only practicable means of communica- tion between Germany and Japan today is by short-wave radio, in code. For five months after we entered the war, any- body, including a Japanese, could pick up a phone in Buenos Aires and talk to Berlin, but that is no longer possible. It is believed, however, that the J aps have never stopped sendi.ng out mer- chant ships headed for the Pacific coast of South America. How many of them have got through is a question. One German ship, it is known, recently put out from Japan for Germany via Cape Horn and got clear around South Amer- ica and off the coast of Africa before it \vas sunk. Mystery I T was neither snowing nor raining, nor had the gloom of night yet set in, when a young lady named Vivian was accosted at the corner of Park Avenue and Forty-eighth Street by a postman, fully uniformed and carry- ing a bag of mail. "Can you tell me where the post office is?" he asked. Manpower shorter than ever, it seems. Weston W E have talked with several people lately who knew Ezra Pound in the days before he expatriated himself and went to Europe to seek a culture that suited him, and we find that they seem to think that it's all right to indict him as a sort of minor-league traitor but that his extreme rattle-headedness is the cause of it all. One of the men who told us about Pound is Mr. Claudius Alonzo Hand, general counsel for the Corporation Trust Company, of 120 Broadway, who roomed with him at Hamilton College. It was plain to see who dominated that ménage. Pound was already an inveterate versifier and would wake up Hand in the middle of the night to listen to something he'd just written. He'd shove a glass of beer at Hand, who was the son of a Methodist minister and didn't drink, and declaim sonorously for as much as an hour or so.